Chapter 10

The next day was Monday, and Eve smiled as she awoke, she's finally mine, she thought to herself. No more pining, no more feeling guilty because of her dreams, Sophie and her were finally together. Eve exercised and showered then got dressed in jeans, brown combat boots, a black sleeveless shirt, and her favorite red trenchcoat. She came downstairs all smiles only to see her parents looking concerned and serious. "Eve, get your brothers and sisters, now," her Mom ordered her. Eve didn't say anything when she heard the way she spoke, she meant business.

Eve knocked on Ivan's door and said, "Wake up! Mom and Dad have some serious stuff for us!" Ivan came out in his boxers, with a noticeable bulge in them. "Can it wait?" he asked. "No," Eve told him, and Ivan sighed, "Give me five," and went back in his room. Eve did the same with James, Greta, and Selma. After her siblings got dressed, they all came down to see their parents were very serious. Chloe said, "Last night around 2 your Father was called by Omega Squad to help them. They were confronting a ghost that had killed three young women who were out together." Ivan woke up then and Selma grabbed James's hand, he squeezed her hands to comfort her.

Roger picked it up from there, "I got there just in time to stop the ghost from killing three of the new recruits of Omega Squad. All of them were young women, unmarried. This ghost went after Privates Valerie Sands, Lisa Mung, and JoAnne Freud. I got her in time and managed to tear the ghosts arm off, but she just re-grew it and blasted me away with a ghost ray. Before I could continue the fight she had already disappeared. I've been searching for her until an hour ago when I woke up your mother. This Ghost is dangerous. She's short, 5' even if that; brunette. She is…beautiful, red hair, white skinned, but her eyes look evil and black. She wears a red dress, at least from the 16th century."

"Got it," Ivan said, for once without his usual enthusiasm. James, Marie, and Greta nodded grimly and Eve said, "I gotta get something," and hurried back to her room. Before leaving her Grandparents she had gone down to the old Fenton Works Battle Station and snagged a wrist blaster for Sophie. She didn't think she'd need to give it to her, but now she was glad she had the wrist blaster. It was one of the newer models designed by her Uncle Jerry, it looked like a regular silver bracelet, but by pressing a black fake opal on the side you activated a small but powerful laser that would automatically target any Ghost in the area. Eve smiled at the memory of when Uncle Jerry first showed it, it had blasted her Dad's tail off; took three months for it to grow back.

Eve put the wrist blaster in her coat pocket and came back down. After dropping off her sister's her Mom told Eve and her brothers, "Listen, we don't know where this ghost will come from. So you're all going to have to wear these," Chloe handed them all ear mics that they put on. "If you spot the ghost, contact whoever you can, me, your Father, your siblings, anyone. A homicidal ghost can not be taken lightly." "Got it," James said nervously as Eve and Ivan nodded and went to school. Eve wasn't herself that day, and her friends picked up on it. At lunch, Sophie finally told her, "Eve, what's wrong?" Eve then realized that she hadn't been paying attention.

"There's a ghost, a killer one. She's targeting young women. Sophie, I want you to take this," eve got out the wrist blaster and put it on Sophie, "It's a wrist blaster that'll automatically target any ghosts nearby, just press the opal." Sophie nodded; then the girls turned to see Jayson putting a $50 bill in Ralph's hand. "You were betting on us!?" Sophie and Eve yelled at them. "Yes. So, who made the first move?" Jayson asked with a mischievous smirk on his mouth. Sophie got red in the face and growled, "Only ghosts?"
"Only ghosts. Uncle Jerry made sure of that, it won't ever hit a human, or halfa," Eve sighed.

Jayson raised his hands and said, "Okay, that was overboard, I'm sorry. Really, I'm happy for you guys; may you stay together forever." Nothing else important happened for the rest of the school day. As soon as they were out, Sophie and Eve walked together. Eve kept her senses open; you never knew where a paparazzo rat was hiding. Sure enough, as they rounded the corner to Sophie's house she smelled something, cheap cologne. Eve turned to Sophie and whispered, "Keep walking, I smell a stalker. I'll make a copy, go walking with it and I'll handle the rat." Sophie nodded and Eve quickly went Ghost and left a copy of herself that looked human and turned invisible. She waited until she noticed a small blonde man moving around, he would be handsome if he shaved more often. Eve took a whiff of the air near him; it was the smell of the stalker. Got you!

Striking faster than a snake Eve pulled the man's collar, turned him invisible, and flew up to the top of a twenty story apartment building. That's when she recognized the paparazzo, "Hello, Dick." Eve turned them both visible and shook the paparazzo around, making two phones and three digital camera's fall out of his clothes and crash into the street below. "This's harassment!" Dick Hardy, the paparazzo, said. "No, you stalking a teenage girl is harassment; and pervy too," Eve shot back at him. "What do you have to hide so much that the public can't see it?" Dick asked her. "How about my friends' privacy for starters. And don't even try to claim that you're all about the truth; you'd sell your grandparent's sex tape if the price was high enough," Eve said, and the look on his face said he wasn't disagreeing with her.

Eve looked him in the eyes and growled at him, "If you bother my friends, ever, I will throw you into the Ghost Zone for 48 hours. After that time, I'll go looking for you. But remember, the Ghost Zone's a big place, I might not be able to find you." "You can't getaway with that! I got rights!" Dick Hardy shouted, clearly terrified. "My friend's rights supersede yours in my book. And it's not like I'm killing you," Eve leaned into his ear, "That's what the wildlife's for." Eve left him on the roof and flew back down to Sophie, wrapping her arms around her. "I know someplace private we can go," Eve whispered in her ear. "Let me tell my parents," Sophie said, and Eve let go of her. "Hey, Dad, I'm staying out with my friends. Okay. Bye."

Sophie hung up her phone and said, "Where are we going?" "Someplace where no one will see us," Eve assured her and picked her up bridal style and turned invisible. They flew through town until they got to the Park. Eve spotted the grove of trees she wanted and flew down to it. Eve looked around and saw no one as she let Sophie down, then took a whiff of the air with her superhuman senses to make sure. No one was around to spy on them. Eve turned human and said, "We're alone." Sophie looked around at the snow covered trees and ground. A heavy breeze didn't help and Eve realized Sophie had forgotten her coat.

Eve took off her trenchcoat and put it on her, "Just take it. I can stand the cold better." Sophie nodded then hugged her close. Eve leaned down and kissed her, everything just felt so right…

All of a sudden, she heard a guitar playing:

I got the talk when I was younger,

And understood as I recall,

They hadn't mentioned this at all.

My heart was racing like a sprinter,

That tripped and fell,

In love with a girl just for tonight that's all!

"Who's singing?" Sophie asked. "I have no idea," Eve told her, looking around.

I've got big, big plans,

And they've gotta mean something more,

Than just once,

I just don't know what I want.

"Not bad," Sophie commented. "I guess," Eve said and blocked the song out to restart the smooching.

I'm gonna tear your ass up like we just got married!

"WHAT!" Sophie screamed, "Did you arrange this!?" "Are you joking!?" Eve yelled back, going Ghost.

And you're all mine now!

"IVAN!" Eve screeched as green rings flew up and down her body, turning her shirt white, jeans and boots black, skin green and eyes red and replacing her teeth with fangs. "AMSCRAY!" Eve heard Ivan scream. Eve flew after her brothers, both of whom were in Ghost Form wearing black shirts and white pants, Ivan's jacket was white, James had Ivan's guitar. Eve used her flashstep and got in front of them, grabbing them by their necks and floating all three of them down to Sophie, who glared at the brothers. "What the Hell is wrong with you?!" Sophie screamed at them. James spoke up first, "I swear I was just trying to help set the mood for you guys. I didn't know the lyrics, just the tune!" "And what's your excuse?" Eve growled at Ivan. Ivan glared back at her, "Dormo, Fratino, dormo." Sleep, Sister, sleep.

"Kion la Infero vi parolas?" What the Hell are you talking about? Eve asked him. Ivan laughed and said, "Por la lasta monata mi ne povis atingi decan nokto dormon ĉar vi sonĝas pri Sophie la tutan tempon. 'Ho Sophie, Dekstre Sophie, ĉi tio ne dolorigos tro multe Sophie', Bona Dio! Mi ne bezonas veki en la meza de la nokto aŭdi vian malseka sonĝojn!" For the last month I haven't been able to get a decent night's sleep because you were dreaming about Sophie all the time. 'Oh Sophie, right there Sophie, this won't hurt too much Sophie', Good God! I didn't need to wake up in the middle of the night hearing your wet dreams!

"TOO MUCH INFORMATION!" James screamed. Eve let her brothers go and Ivan said, "I'm done, but seriously, you need to quit talking in your sleep." The two male siblings flew off, leaving Eve and Sophie alone.